[Anime Review] Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

"An anime that will blew everyone minds away" -bezoe

In the post-apocalyptic future, large parts of the world have been swallowed up by forests of poisonous fungi. The remaining humans live near the fungus and its monstrous insectoid inhabitants, trying to prevent its spread. One of the human kingdoms, the peaceful Valley of Wind, loves its gentle Princess Nausicaä and her father the king, but their peace is about to be broken, as they are swallowed up in the machinations of their larger, warmongering neighbours. However, Nausicaä has hidden potential, and may yet change the fate of the world.

It's hard to believe that today is the first time I've watched Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (after 24 years the movie released and I'm a Miyazaki's fan.. lol) I will say, I miss one of the greatest Miyazaki's movie of all time by not watching this one even though I got the DVD sitting on my shelve for like 5 years haha)

Anyway, Nausicaa really an anime that very exciting to watch and enjoy. Even though its a fantasy setting, but it really makes me feel like the world is real. The design of the environment was amazing, the creatures design are also marvelous.

Storyline actually pretty serious, its about war of the neighbouring country that race againts each other in order to obtain ultimate weapon, and unfortunately for the Valley of the Wind, they get involved in the war that they not interested to take part on. Story progress to a very interesting way in later on because of how the Princess from the Valley of the Wind deal with the matters.

Characters design, it's Miyazaki's style, as in other of his animes, its really classic looking but yet very warm and comfort to look at it. Even the hideous monster looks... cute... haha
Can't argue with the animation quality of this anime, its superb!
The roll of music in this anime really makes the anime even better, Kudos to Joe Hisaishi

Bottom line this is a must watch anime, and I really regret to wait for almost 20 years later to enjoy this anime... This one will blew everyone minds away

Overall Rating: A